Mota-Engil, Besix score Mozambique LNG deal

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Mota-Engil, Besix score Mozambique LNG deal

3:53 CAT | 28 Apr 2020

Photo courtesy: Total

A partnership consisting of Portugal’s Mota-Engil and Besix of Belgium has secured a contract for the Total-led $20 billion Mozambique LNG export project.

Under the deal, the 50/50 partnership will build a pier bridge and an offloading facility for about $365 million, according to a Mota-Engil statement.

“Mota-Engil SGPS SA is pleased to announce the signing, by Mota-Engil Engenharia e Construção Africa, in 50/50 partnership with BESIX, of a contract within the scope of the liquefied natural gas project in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique,” the statement sent to the [Portuguese] Securities Market Commission reads.

The project covers the construction of a pier bridge and offloading facility project for CCS JV.

CCS JV, a joint venture between McDermott, Saipem and Chiyoda, is the nominated EPC contractor for the Mozambique Area 1, Lda (AMA1) Mozambique Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Project in Palma District , Cabo Delgado.

Mota-Engil says the works will last 32 months, starting in the first half of 2020.

“This new project in Mozambique, which will be one of the largest LNG projects worldwide in the next decade, confirms this country as one of the main axes of Mota-Engil Africa’s commercial dynamics on the continent,” the statement concludes.

Mozambique LNG was sanctioned in June 2019 by Anadarko and its co-venturers in Area 1 offshore development.

Total acquired Anadarko’s 26.5 percent interest in the LNG project in September last year for $3.9 billion.

The project will initially consist of two LNG trains in Cabo Delgado with a capacity of 12.88 million tonnes per year to support the development of the Golfinho/Atum fields located entirely within Area 1.

Area 1 contains more than 60 trillion cubic feet of gas resources, of which 18 Tcf will be developed with the first two trains.

Total said previously that it expected production to begin by 2024.

Source: Offshore Energy / Lusa